It's awesome technology, but I'm disturbed by the seeming purpose of it. There's a whole section of the video devoted to molesting, and taking clothes off of, the teenage girl figure until she's crying in a corner...and then giving her a teddy bear to make her happy again.
The Japanese sexual culture is deeply disturbing is what I'm trying to say here.
I just don't understand what kind of person gets their jollies by molesting a virtual child until they are crying in a corner. I'm not suggesting there ought to be a law against molesting virtual children.
From what I understand of Japanese culture, there are few sexual taboos. People are much more open and honest about sex than they are here.
In America, anything beyond missionary position is considered weird. Anal sex is a little edgy. BDSM and roleplaying are considered weird and freaky by pretty much everybody. Which is odd, because sex really should be one of the most individual, unique things for people. Each person has different standards for what they find hot. Why shouldn't that play out during sex?
Those fantasies go far and wide. I'm sure every single person reading this has had bizarre sexual thoughts and ideas. Perhaps not for long, perhaps you've denied the thoughts to yourself as wrong, but the thoughts have crossed your mind. So the concept of a robot like this is, why not let people indulge in these fantasies? Some things you cannot achieve unless you do it virtually. That means either you suppress those fantasies, which is unhealthy, or you find some other outlet - virtual, which is fine, or real, which is certainly not.
My opinion is that having a sexual fantasy about beating and molesting a child is perfectly natural. That's not my personal perverted fantasy, but if it's somebody else's I'm not going to call that strange. So if they've found a way to have that fantasy that doesn't involve harming a child, then props to them! If America had such an open nature to sex, we'd have fewer cultural problems than we do (and we have a lot).
In America, anything beyond missionary position is considered weird. Anal sex is a little edgy. BDSM and roleplaying are considered weird and freaky by pretty much everybody.
Really? I guess living in or near large cities all these years has warped my perspective of what "in America" means. None of these things seems particularly weird or taboo amongst my social set.
If America had such an open nature to sex, we'd have fewer cultural problems than we do (and we have a lot).
And Japan doesn't have problems? I think you're giving the culture a huge pass. If you wanted to hold up the Netherlands as an example of a very healthy and very open sexual culture (including a societal understanding that teenagers have an interest in sex, and will have sex), then I'd be on board with you. But, we're talking about Japan here...The land of "Christmas cake", "kawaii", etc. Infantilization of women is the norm. That's not healthy or merely open...that's just broken in a different direction than America's protestant zeal.
I wasn't trying to suggest that America has a healthy approach to sex. We, on the whole, don't, particularly with regard to teenagers and sex (some of our child protection laws are bizarre and have horrific consequences, like labeling a 17 year old that has sex with a consenting 15 year old as a sexual predator and a child abuser). But I said nothing about America in my comments. This wasn't a "Go USA! Japan sucks!" conversation, and I don't think there's really anything interesting about such a conversation.
Again, I'm not suggesting it should be illegal...just that I'm rather stunned that the market for a "molest a child" game is large enough such that that is how they market this product. It is, to me, a disturbing indicator of the way a reasonably large segment of Japanese men feel about women (large enough to be the market they've chosen to target with this really clever new toy).
Again, I'm not suggesting it should be illegal...just that I'm rather stunned that the market for a "molest a child" game is large enough such that that is how they market this product.
Phrased like that, it seems more bizarre than it did when I first thought about it.
Really? I guess living in or near large cities all these years has warped my perspective of what "in America" means. None of these things seems particularly weird or taboo amongst my social set.
Possibly this is just youth speaking. Those things are absolutely viewed as freak attitudes in college.
The Japanese sexual culture is deeply disturbing is what I'm trying to say here.